Donna Jean Godchaux, Who Backed Up Elvis and Brought Soul to the Dead, Dies at 78

Raised in studios around Muscle Shoals, Ala., she was with the Grateful Dead for some of its most celebrated—and ...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead singer, dead at 78

Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay has died. She was 78. Godchaux-MacKay died on Sunday at Alive Hospice in Nashville, Tennessee, after a lengthy battle with cancer, her family confirmed ...

Former Grateful Dead Vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay Dies at 78

The singer, who died on Nov. 2 after a long battle with cancer, lent her powerful voice to the legendary band from 1971 to 1979.

Maggie Rose on Donna Jean Godchaux: ‘Her Voice Changed the Grateful Dead's Center of Gravity'

When Maggie Rose took the stage with My Morning Jacket's Jim James at the MusiCares Persons of the Year gala earlier this year, she understood the assignment: Deliver the timeless Americana of the ...

Donna Jean Godchaux, the Grateful Dead's first lady, dies at 78

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, the only woman to have graced The Grateful Dead 's lineup, has died at 78. The singer died at a hospice on Sunday, Nov. 2, in Nashville after a "lengthy struggle with ...